http://liliputing.com/2015/05/windows-as-a-service-windows-10-will-be-continu...Windows as a service: Windows 10 will be continually updated (with no Windows 11 in sight)"Cynics might think this means Windows 10 won’t be complete at launch… and they’re kind of right. Microsoft has already said that Windows 10 for phones won’t be available until a few months after Windows 10 for desktops launches this summer, and Windows 10 for desktops will include the new Microsoft Edge web browser, but some features including support for Object RTC and web extensions won’t be available in the browser at launch.
But in some respects. Windows 10 will never be complete, just the way Ubuntu, Fedora, OS X, Android, iOS, and other operating systems are never really complete — because there’s always room to roll out updates to patch security vulnerabilities or to add new features."Microsoft has not finalized Windows 10 after 4 years of working on it now, it has been a continuing conceptual re-write process that has gone through phase after phase and re-write after re-write after re-write.
Nothing Windows has done has fully clicked with the testers, other than just certain selected feature sections.
So, Microsoft has decided to roll with what they got right now, which is a constantly evolving product which right now is structured greatly like one of the newer developing Linux Distros, great ideas being plopped down constantly with full execution coming and a level of future polish promised.
Microsoft still hasn't even finished with their business model (?? how do they get paid ??) nor do they have an announced plan to completely integrate the PC and Phone/Tablet parts of their disparate worlds. They have some stuff in mobile that does not play in PC and vice versa.
Performance wise, you get the sense that MS was waiting for Intel to come out with a chip fast enough to make their porky old stuff be quick enough to be blended in with the new features to become "the new quick and light stuff".
This isn't happening and MS must regroup yet again and put out an OS this summer anyway without any "helpful" Intel super processors to support them.
Tester say 10 is "better" than before in general, but still complain about specific items. It isn't lighter or smaller (quite the contrary, it is feature crowded with entire thought lines going off in odd directions that were development delayed, but not removed). For example:
As you can see, it is actually functionally pretty much the same old stuff with different access shells and some "do it while you are sleeping" dodges, but all the old cruft is still there and you will still spend time taking care of endlessly changing the baby's anti-virus diaper, etc.
But, a few of the features recently created show the potential promise of lighter and faster, but this is mostly on the mobile side of the endeavor and they are nothing that is seamlessly integrated across the board right now anyway.
Microsoft wanted to have "one product on all screens" but 10's reality does not seem to be headed that way. What is released for PC will likely be maximized for a traditional desktop monitor/keyboard/mouse and will NOT contain all the mobile elements per se.
I still hold out some hope for the mobile product to be better, as it hold most of the "new think" items.
Shovel-ware and crap-ware are still going to be around, with some permanent ad bars popping up occasionally to generate some incidental revenue for the crapware people -- it is still the same old MS world view after all with all the old remora fish still suctioning on to the big fish and riding along for an up-front fee.
People will quickly begin to refer to different slices or views of the MS pie as "PC something" vs a mobile "something else" and MS will eventually have to start to use the nomenclature that develops.
Until then, MS will give 10 away for free, push and promote the hell out of it and see if they can preserve their market share as they endlessly continue to work on it.
What has not changed --
Business isn't having any part of it and is sticking with Win 7 as installed in all their functions.
Until MS comes up with something desktop based that can woo Business off of Win 7 it is all a mental exercise anyway.